Maple Trestle Table, Session 18 – Attachment Strips and Power Carving

On the morning of Sunday, April 15th, Morton and I exchanged ideas about trestle tables, spurred on by a recent sketch of a table on which he was working. That got me yearning to build a trestle table.

I documented my progress live on Twitter which was useful because each update had a time stamp so followers could see the rate at which I progressed. Here is a list of the previous Sessions:

(If you are not familiar with the format used on Twitter, every update, or “tweet” below starts with a username, being the author of that tweet. Sometimes, you see two or more usernames in a tweet. The second (and third, etc) usernames are preceded by a @ symbol and are people to whom the author is talking. The other symbol you see is #, which serves as a category. I try to remember to categorize all my tweets pertaining to this project under #flairww.)

FlairWoodworks And… into the shop I go! First thing I do: turn on the lights; then remove the clamps! #flairww -1:33 PM May 17th, 2012

This video shows how I use my 6″ Mirka CEROS (Compact Electric Random Orbit Sander) and a 40-grit Abranet HD disc to sand the sculpted legs. I normally wear a dust mask while sanding, but I I forgot while thinking about camera angles. Use a dust mask! The CEROS is very good at collecting dust when used on flat surfaces but not as good when sanding rounded surfaces. The Abranet HD discs are less effective at catching dust from the regular Abranet discs.

DyamiPlotke @FlairWoodworks I’ll check on a PC [power carver] later, but is there a particular model (grit?) good for a newb? -8:30 PM May 17th, 2012

Chris I would like to see the tennons on the streacher trimmed and detailed. Just a 1/4″ or 1/2″ at most with a bevel detail would look polished. For the legs you have joined a curved piece and a staight piece. You are shaping a wonderfull organic shape to the raidus piece, but just rounding over the corners of the straight section. It seems like it could have a shallow curve along the outside of it at least. Maybe a defelection of 1″. Just feels the curves would feel better, and a little less like a Pick Nick table look. Great work! Enjoying the posts.

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